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Access Magento DB Remotely (Using Sequel Pro Mac)

Posted on: 2nd Aug 2011 By: Robert Kent 2 Comments
Access Magento DB Remotely (Using Sequel Pro Mac)

When hosting your Magento website you may find that you are restricted to how you can access your website’s database. Normally when hosting a Magento site you would use a platform such as plesk or similar where you can create your databases within the control panel. The only problem with this is when you wish [...]

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Echo Category Thumbnail

Posted on: 21st Jul 2011 By: Adam Moss 13 Comments
Echo Category Thumbnail

A relatively new addition to the Magento category model is the ability to choose a category thumbnail. This works out well because those of you that will have used thumbnails for the category image before will know that when it is displayed on the actual category page, it doesn’t really fit into the area, meaning [...]

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The Checkout Mentality: Part I – What is a Checkout?

Posted on: 19th Jul 2011 By: Robert Kent No Comments
The Checkout Mentality: Part I – What is a Checkout?

When it comes to Ecommerce Web Design – there are no more important areas than the checkout. Today’s post is all about looking at what a checkout is and what it is put there to do. Later on in this series I will look at how we can optimise our checkouts – specifically relating to [...]

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Essential Magento developer tools

Posted on: 8th Jul 2011 By: Ben McManus 5 Comments
Essential Magento developer tools

With the Magento Fox on the bookmark rampage I thought I would join in with my favorite developer tools/extensions. Browser development/testing Firebug + YSlow This priceless tool packs it all, element/script editing, logging, connections and it’s own plugins! The Yahoo extension YSlow analyses your DOM and gives it a page load rating a must for [...]

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The Magento Blog Bookmark

Posted on: 7th Jul 2011 By: Adam Moss 3 Comments
The Magento Blog Bookmark

Today marks the 340th post on this blog, meaning Rob, Ben, Luci and I have contributed a lot of content over the past few years. Some of it good, some of it not so good (Magento Horrorshow anyone?). Anyway, I’ve collected a list of posts and code snippets that myself and my colleagues often go [...]

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